This is recommended method to download as the ReactOS main site does not have as much bandwidth available...Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:01:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Yann64)CommentsWOW!http://www.osnews.com/thread?156506
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156506Wow!Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:11:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (lcdumais)CommentsReactOS Videos and Screenshotshttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156508
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156508ReactOS Videos and Screenshots
Videos of the ReactOS graphical user interface, command line, samba-tng (files and printing over network) and Screenshots of ReactOS 0.3.0.

http://www.reactos.org/?page=mediaMon, 28 Aug 2006 11:15:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (frik85)CommentsRE: Server overloadhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156509
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156509Why do all the sourceforge files show 0 downloads? I'm certain I'm not the first!Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:34:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (biteydog)Commentswebsite is back onlinehttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156510
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156510website is back onlineMon, 28 Aug 2006 11:38:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (frik85)CommentsRE[2]: Server overloadhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156513
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156513They just stagger behind, I have noticed this through many releases now. Check back tomorrorw for todays stats and so on.Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:56:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (BrandonTurner)CommentsFunnihttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156514
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156514The first video they show they go into firefox to the ReactOS Donate Money page.

LOLMon, 28 Aug 2006 12:16:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymo)CommentsRE: Funnihttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156525
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156525LOL that's brilliant Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:06:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (spikeb)CommentsVirtualizationhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156527
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156527Nice, they have qemu and vmware images for download. Going to give it a spinMon, 28 Aug 2006 13:08:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (spikeb)CommentsXP compatibility?http://www.osnews.com/thread?156528
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156528I thoght they where only aiming for NT4?Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:09:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Alleister)Commentshmmhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156536
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156536the idea is good... sure!
this could attract some people to use more OSS.
but why keep that horryble windows look and feel? but it's still alpha so maybe in the future they will work on the UI too.Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:30:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (HanZo)CommentsRE: XP compatibility?http://www.osnews.com/thread?156538
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156538They decided to go ahead and aim for XP compat too, a while back. Might as well, it's NT based, and wine aims for that kind of compat too.Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:39:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (spikeb)CommentsRE: hmmhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156539
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156539A LOT of people like or are at least very used to the old windows look, so they'll probably keep it - means they can keep working on compatibility instead of the UI. This really isn't trying to break new ground.Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:40:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (spikeb)Commentsre: hmmhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156541
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156541correct, to the point that even spyware an viri will run on react os. while it isnt a ground breaking os in itself, what its doing for compatibility and what it has a posibility of doing for the OSS comunity is quite ground breaking. almost earth shattering even.Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:47:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Zedicus)CommentsRE[2]: hmmhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156542
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156542I prefer that look to the blue or green XP themes. The Silver one is ok, though, especially if you slim down the title bars.Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:49:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (twenex)CommentsPerformancehttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156546
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156546What about performance ? How fast is it compared to windows ?

I know that at this point of development maybe performance is not a priority, but i'm just curious !Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:23:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (fepede)CommentsRE[3]: hmmhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156550
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156550I prefer that look to the blue or green XP themes. The Silver one is ok, though, especially if you slim down the title bars.
well... I perfectly agree to that... the blue XP theme is one of the ugliest themes ever created in computer history. anyway, there is not just windows... and making a compatible os does not necessarily mean you have to make it look like. although certainly this makes it easier for people who have always worked with windows and only windows and panic in front of changes (and unfortunately these people still are a lot. I suppose ReactOS is somehow meant for those poeple... who is not afraid of change will end up using linux or another "alternative".Edited 2006-08-28 15:05Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:05:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (HanZo)Commentsan interesting concept..http://www.osnews.com/thread?156553
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156553if for nothing else the sheer volume of available windoze software,especially in the graphics and games dept.Ditto for device drivers,it would be nice to have an open source OS that was compatable with windoze drivers so I could run vitually any piece of hardware I cared to.I would't care about virus vunerability,because I will continue to run Linux and BeOS for internet stuff,I hope these folks keep up the good work!I haven't read the full article yet so I don't know how usable it is in it's current form but it's a step in the right direction and I bet this will be finished before Haiku because surely there are more people interested in a free windoze replacement than a BeOS one for the reasons stated above.Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:26:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Saquatch666)CommentsBlue screens includedhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156554
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156554Haha, I just got it to blue screen on me - and I mean a real blue screen, just like Windows

"A problem has been detected and ReactOS has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer".

But did they really need to make it crash like Windows too?Edited 2006-08-28 15:42Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:31:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (unrealdtc)CommentsRE: Blue screens includedhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156557
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156557That's compatibility for you!Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:57:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (biteydog)CommentsRE: Performancehttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156558
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156558I'd say at this point, it's quite a bit slower than win2k, XP. but that is to be expected, since the priority should always be to get things working solidly first. "Premature optimization is the root of all evil.". there are likely other factors aswell, such as what optimizations are enabled when compiling these release builds. btw, what compiler are they using for these releases, gcc or vc?

given the small team of developers, I'm impressed at how well it's progressing.Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:15:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Valhalla)CommentsRE: Blue screens includedhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156564
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156564That's pretty funny! Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:03:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi)CommentsFAT???http://www.osnews.com/thread?156567
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156567Does it mean you may have one user, no-permissions feature, absolutely insecure OS? Or does it let you change format as you install it?Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:20:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Punktyras)CommentsRE: FAT???http://www.osnews.com/thread?156617
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156617EXT2 support is planned for the next release. No, the filesystem layout won't be affected... no /etc for this baby!

Pitty it won't be EXT3 though, journaling would be sweet.Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:28:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (n0xx)Comments2 questionshttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156689
http://www.osnews.com/thread?1566891) The ReactOS support the brazilian portuguese, spanish or other languages?
2) Can I sucessfuly install in my Acer Aspire 3650 (with wireless and bluetooth)?

Thanks.Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:14:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Curious)CommentsReactOS is nicehttp://www.osnews.com/thread?156700
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156700"Pitty it won't be EXT3 though, journaling would be sweet" > ext3 is only ext2 with a journal, so the step to go once you get ext2 implemeented is smaller than going for ext3 right now. IMAO I'm not so enthousiasmed by ext2, as it may be cool for reading and writing to your linux partitions, but I wouldn't use it for production, as Windows ACL are by far supperior to Unix current access scheme. I'm dreaming of ACL like Windows does under Linux. Maybe simplier though...

"1) The ReactOS support the brazilian portuguese, spanish or other languages?
2) Can I sucessfuly install in my Acer Aspire 3650 (with wireless and bluetooth)?"
This is an alpha OS, not a production one. I don't think Bluetooth is implemented right now and I don't think wireless is supported, though network card should be (Wireless require some services to control it while wired card are simple connect and go devices).

For now, what I'm looking for is the possibility to run the OS only in console mode or in reducted more at last. This could be a killer server OS, and optimization could also make it a dream gaming OS, better than Windows itself... once it will support correctly third party device drivers. Te idea to customize completely my Windows version is also verry attractive. If I had more spare time I would definitely help them to make this an MS butt kicking OS!Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:09:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (werfu)CommentsRE[2]: XP compatibility?http://www.osnews.com/thread?156739
http://www.osnews.com/thread?156739Considering that they're also using a rewrite of the NT kernel, what it should mean is faster implementation of features as they don't need to work around Windows/*NIX differences, its just a matter of doing it to the documentation.

Even if it takes them until the end of next year, what this will provide, however, is a good alternative to those wanting to run Windows applications because they require compatibility, but at the same time, not have to deal with purchasing a new copy of Windows.Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:53:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai)Comments